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I want to continue with the close integration of health and care services as well as pressing for more NHS dentists and better diagnostic services closer to home.

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Derek raises the issue of brain tumour research funding at PMQs

Wednesday, 24 March, 2021

Derek with Health Secretary Matt Hancock at a Brain Tumour Awareness event in 2017.

 

West Cornwall MP Derek Thomas has raised awareness of the importance of properly funded research into brain tumours at Prime Minister’s Questions.

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More research required to combat 'pernicious' childhood cancers

Tuesday, 8 December, 2020

Derek Thomas chairs a meeting of the Brain Tumour APPG before the pandemic.

 

West Cornwall MP Derek Thomas has issued a heartfelt plea for the Government to increase funding for research into one of the most aggressive cancers.

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Derek welcomes boost in NHS doctor and nurse numbers

Friday, 28 August, 2020

West Cornwall MP Derek Thomas says that latest figures showing a significant increase in the number of doctors and nurses working in the NHS in Cornwall are an encouraging sign that Government policies are working.

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MP's Column

Thursday, 30 July, 2020

‘I entirely recognise the strong desire to reflect the pride that we feel in our different parts of the United Kingdom. We are at the start of a process. I am not saying either yes or no; we are simply at too early a stage in this process to decide.

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NHS Trade and Nurses Pay!

Thursday, 23 July, 2020

A couple of concerns have arisen following the Trade Bill passing through Parliament and Chancellor, Rishi Sunak’s speech (both 21st July).  One is the perceived risk to the NHS from future trade deals and the other is the apparent exclusion of nurses from newly announced pay rises.

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Restarting NHS dental services

Tuesday, 23 June, 2020

Dental practices have been closed throughout the coronavirus pandemic with services limited to emergency dental care only in urgent dental centres located across the country.

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Derek urges the Chancellor and Health Minister to back Brain Tumour Research

Thursday, 21 May, 2020

A brain tumour diagnosis is a devastating event in any family and, if you have experienced this, you will know how important it is to find a cure and to find the very best model of care.

Derek in Helston

MP's Column

Thursday, 27 February, 2020

There are many aspects of the job of Member of Parliament for West Cornwall and Scilly that are rewarding and worthwhile but not much tops the opportunity to meet constituents at the drop-in events, the latest of which I hosted in various pubs last week.

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Report will bring relief for people living with a painful form of athritis

Monday, 10 February, 2020

West Cornwall MP Derek Thomas hopes that a new report will bring about rapid improvements in the care of people suffering from a painful and progressive form of inflammatory arthritis which has ‘gone under the radar’. in recent years

Derek in Helston

MP's Column

Thursday, 6 February, 2020

Few would disagree that it is a matter of strategic national interest to ensure that our country can feed itself. For the first time in over 40 years we have a historic opportunity to design a domestic agricultural policy that will create a more productive and sustainable farming sector.

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Derek Thomas, MP for St Ives, West Cornwall and The Isles of Scilly

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